Unbelievable! Mohanlal Almost Said NO to ‘Kireedam’

Malayalam film lovers never forget the character ‘Sethumadhavan’ as the film ‘Kireedam’ created a huge impact among Keralites. It’s sequel also was well noticed when released as ‘Chenkol’. The interesting fact was, Mohanlal almost said ‘No’ in signing the film ‘Kireedam’ in the first place and director Sibi Malayil with writer AK Lohithadas was literally chasing Mohanlal to the locations of all the films Mohanlal was present at that time.

Lohithadas was very confident that Mohanlal would agree for the film if he listens to the story and finally they happened to get some time from Lal for story session. Surprisingly when the session started, Mohanlal began to believe in the film and he had tears as when the story session ended that lasted for hours. Lal told Sibi and Lohi that his next film will be ‘Kireedam’ only. The film went on to become a huge hit at the box office that also started a successful new team of Mohanlal, Sibi Malayil and Lohithadas that went on to make some unforgettable films in Malayalam.